Vol 138 (1988)

Blackburn Public Fairs - Justices of the Peace - Royal Yachts - Christopher Hasell - Architect's Notebook - Popular Radicalism - Widnes Electrical Supply - Bolton and WWI - Left Theatre on Merseyside

Front matter
List of illustrations
Editorial note
Council and officers of the Society

The public fairs of Blackburn hundred, 1580-1700
William King

Performance and motivation amongst the justices of the peace in early Stuart Lancashire
D. J. Wilkinson

Parkgate and the royal yachts: Passenger traffic between the north-west and Dublin in the eighteenth century
Geoffrey Place

A good fortune and a good wife: the marriage of Christopher Hasell of Liverpool, merchant, 1765
Eunice and Maurice Schofield

Pages from an architect’s notebook: John Nash and the Reptons at High Legh Hall
Nigel Temple

Liverpool in the ‘heroic age’ of popular radicalism, 1815 to 1820
Kevin Moore

Electrical supply and the borough council in Widnes, 1899-1911
John Tully

Bolton and the outbreak of the first world war
G. J. Bryant

Theatre as a weapon? The emergence of left theatre on Merseyside
Michael Jones

Notes on contributors

Was St. Tuda buried at Whalley?
C.P. Lewis

Reviews

Obituary: John Joseph Bagley, 1908-1989

Council and officers’ reports for 1988

Index

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